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You get sneaky-good coverage. thanks. youthat's why you drink ensure. sidelined. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. welcome back. i'm fredricka whitfield. democrats and republicans are reacting to the firing of a high profile u.s. attorney, preet r bharara was among dozens of u.s. attorneys the trump administration asked to resign but refused and instead was fired. president-elect trump reportedly assured bharara in the fall that bharara's job was secure. but senator john mccain sa...

This president trump tried to call bharara did not take the call. and in two days, president trump is set to meet with german chancellor angela merkel, a politician he said he admires but also publicly has bashed her refugee policy, and there is plenty at stake right now, not just the relationship between the united states and germany but also the european union, which is looking for fraj jirl since the uk's brexit vote. nic robertson has been writing about the trip for cnn.com and he joins me from london. nic, so much at stake in the relationship between the u.s. and germany, and as you wri...

Abrupt a fashion, but that's what elections have consequences and so for people to complain about it, they're ignoring the history of new presidencies and i think the president had every right to ask for their resignations. >> all right, but senate democratic leader chuck schumer who is friends with bharara and once had him on his staff as his chief counsel had a very different reaction. >> he will be sorely missed. preet took on wall street and corruption among public officials better than anyone else. i believe the president's decision to change his mind and fire preet says far more about th...

Is this apples to apples? >> i don't think it's quite apples to apples. it may be apples to oranges. but it's not that unusual. as you mentioned, this has happened in the past where u.s. attorneys have been asked to resign when a new administration comes into office. they have that right, and in some ways, have that duty. what i think makes this different is particularly the situation in the southern district of new york. former now u.s. attorney bharara. evidently, according to news accounts, he had several serious investigations that were ongoing dealing with some pretty high-level politicia...

>> this is an interesting development in the whole surrounding of bharara. bharara received a phone call from the president's assistant around thursday asking him to call the president. now bharara called the assistant back and said it was inappropriate for him to call and talk to the president and that's a violation of protocol in the attorney general's office and he called the chief of staff to jeff sessions and told him he was not going to talk to the president. it was the next day it was made known that these 46 u.s. attorneys from across the country were going to be removed from their pos...